Infrastructure requirements

Understand the infrastructure requirements when planning for Fusion Data Foundation.

Platform requirements
IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation 4.14 is supported only on OpenShift Container Platform version 4.14 and its next minor versions.
External mode requirements
Use this information to understand external mode requirements for IBM Storage Ceph and IBM FlashSystem.
Resource requirements
IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation services consist of an initial set of base services, and can be extended with additional device sets. All of these Fusion Data Foundation services pods are scheduled by Kubernetes on OpenShift Container Platform nodes. Expanding the cluster in multiples of three, one node in each failure domain, is an easy way to satisfy the pod placement rules.
Pod placement rules
Kubernetes is responsible for pod placement based on declarative placement rules.
Storage device requirements
Understand the different storage capacity requirements that should be considered when planning internal mode deployments and upgrades.

Parent topic: Planning Fusion Data Foundation deployment